Subversive Strategies in Contemporary Chinese Art

Biographical note Readership Table of contents

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xxx, 417 pp., 44 colour illus.

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BRILL

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English

Biographical note

Mary Bittner Wiseman. M.A. in Philosophy, Harvard University. Ph.D. in Philosophy, Columbia University. Professor Emerita of Philosophy at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center, C.U.N.Y. Author of The Ecstases of Roland Barthes (Routledge), she has published on aesthetics, ethics, and feminism.

Liu Yuedi Ph.D. in Philosophy. Associate Professor at Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. Delegate at large of International Association for Aesthetics, Secretary-General of Chinese Society for Aesthetics. Author of The History of Analytic Aesthetics, he has published on culture, aesthetics and art.

Readership

All those interested in aesthetics, Chinese art, and the contemporary art scene, as well as philosophers of art, art historians, Sinologists, and the intellectual art-interested public.

PART ONE
HERE AND NOW
Crisis
Subversive Strategies in Chinese Avant-garde Art
Mary Bittner Wiseman
Political Pop Art and the crisis of originality
Yi Ying
Contemporary Art in China: ‘Anxiety of Influence’ and the Creative Triumph of Cai Guo-Qiang
Laurie Adams

Working It Out
Image-Fabrication and Contemporary Photography in China
Wang Chunchen
Chinese Contemporary Art: From De-Chineseness to Re-Chineseness
Liu Yuedi
Chinese without Chineseness: Chinese Contemporary Art from Cultural Symbol to International Style
Peng Feng
Calligraphic Expression and Contemporary Chinese Art: Xu Bing’s pioneer experiment
Liu Yuedi

Through the Body
The Political Body in Chinese Art
Curtis L. Carter
Gendered Bodies in Contemporary Chinese Art
Mary Bittner Wiseman
The Second Sex and Contemporary Chinese Women’s Art: A Case Study on Chen Lingyang’s Work
He Jinli
Expression Extreme and History Trauma in Women Body Art in China: The Case of He Chengyao
Eva Kit Wah Man

PART TWO
HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY
Classical
Metaphysics in Chinese Art
Abraham Kaplan
Water and Stone: On the Role of Expression in Chinese Art
Mary Bittner Wiseman
Natural Beauty and Literati Strokes: Shi Tao, Merleau-Ponty and the Practice of Painting
David A. Brubaker
Paths to the Middle: A Tentative Theory for Chinese Contemporary Art
Peng Feng

Recent History
Current State of Chinese Art
Wang Chunchen
Avant-garde in Chinese Art
Curtis L. Carter
Post-colonial and Contemporary Art Trends in Taiwan
Pan Fan
Experimental Painting and Painting Theories in Colonial Hong
Kong (1940-1980): Reflections on Cultural Identity
Eva Kit Wah Man

East and West
The Shape of Artistic Pasts: East and West
Arthur C. Danto
How to Misunderstand Chinese Art: Seven Examples
David Carrier
Art and Globalization: Then and Now
Noel Carroll
Concept, Body and Nature: After the End of Art and the Rebirth of Chinese Aesthetics
Liu Yuedi

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